Thailand votes: Record number of early voters hints at possible cliffhanger
2019-03-20 09:30:21 source：The Straits Times
March 20, 2019
CHAIYAPHUM (THAILAND) - More than 2.2 million Thais turned out for early voting - almost 90 per cent of those registered - for the country's hotly anticipated national election, as the junta's main opposition predicted a cliffhanger in the first polls in eight years.
The 2011 election had a 55 per cent turnout for advanced voting, bringing about 1.4 million early to the ballot box.
But enthusiasm is soaring from a public starved of democratic processes since a 2014 coup ousted then Premier Yingluck Shinawatra - reflecting in the country's high number of early voters on Sunday.
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